Fusion Owner to Receive ASAE’s 2002 Academy of Leaders Award 

(June 2002)

The American Society of Association Executives (ASAE) has announced it will honor Hugh K. Lee, president of Fusion Productions, with its 2002 Academy of Leaders Award. The award will be presented in ceremonies during ASAE’s 2002 Annual Meeting and Exposition August 17-20 in Denver, CO.

Lee is the 15th recipient of the Academy of Leaders Award, the highest honor ASAE bestows on associate members who have demonstrated exemplary support to ASAE and the association community.

“Hugh is a tireless supporter of ASAE and its members, lending his personal knowledge, his services, and his time to a wide range of tasks for many years now,” said ASAE President and CEO Michael S. Olson, CAE. “ASAE has been tremendously fortunate to be the beneficiary of Hugh’s expertise in the area of business-related services and technology, and his work in bringing in speakers and developing a challenging and beneficial program at the collaborative Associations: digitalNow Conference has been vital to the event’s success.”

Lee has more than 25 years of experience working with associations, most recently as president of Fusion Productions, where he is responsible for the strategic direction, market development, administration, and coordination of the company’s technology, meeting design/production, and e-learning groups. Lee has worked with more than 250 associations in his career in the areas of research, strategic planning, meeting and educational design and technology consulting.

Lee served on ASAE’s Board of Directors from 1993-96, and consulted on the development of ASAE’s Technology Section. Lee also designed and conducted ASAE’s first annual “State of Technology in the Association Profession” survey. He is an ASAE Fellow, and a winner of ASAE’s Distinguished Contribution Award in 1987.

“To be recognized by your professional home and your peers is the ultimate award,” Lee said. “I have a strong emotional as well as intellectual belief that the work associations do is not only vital to our society, but part of our core fiber. If what I and our team at Fusion have been doing has contributed somehow to this role over the past 25 years, I have been truly blessed.”

Fusion Productions is a full-service production company that creates customized member experiences whether on stage or on a desktop through the integration of meetings, learning and technology. Fusion is well known to the association community for their ground-breaking technology research, consulting and seminars.

ASAE, known as the association of associations, is considered the advocate for the nonprofit sector. The society is dedicated to advancing the value of voluntary associations to society and supporting the professionalism of the individuals who lead them. Founded in 1920 as the American Trade Association Executives, with 67 charter members, ASAE now has 25,000 individual members who manage leading trade, professional, and philanthropic associations. ASAE represents approximately 10,000 associations serving more than 287 million people and companies worldwide and vendors that offer products and services to the association community. To learn more about ASAE, visit their website at www.asaenet.org.
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